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InDesignSecrets Podcast 131 Aug 17, 2010

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7.02 patch update; Bob Levine interview; Quizzler and Seminars news; Obscurity of the Week: Comma, period, slash

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7.02 patch update for InDesign/InCopy CS5: What does it fix?
Interview with Bob Levine, the "InDesignGuy" and InDesignSecrets.com contributor
Upcoming seminars debuting in September
- PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
- 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comma, period, slash (they have a secret life as obscure keyboard shortcuts)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 130 Jul 30, 2010

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Survey winner; Navigating long docs; Two new seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Select and Fit Item

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Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner!
Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features
Two new seminars debut in September
- PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
- 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below)

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's Color2Gray plug-in lets you convert placed color images to grayscale without modifying the original color image; no trips to Photoshop required! A huge timesaver for many publishers, the $29 plug-in works in CS1 to CS5, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS130 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the Color2Gray plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our post about Jim Maivald's new XML/InDesign video series from Lynda.com > Use our Lynda.com 24-hour Free Trial to see all their videos > Love the Quizzler? We have a great one coming up in the next InDesignSecrets newsletter > David's Real World InDesign CS5 book (with Bob Bringhurst!) is coming soon > Not using CS5 yet? Here's what "Select and Fit Item" looks like:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 129 Jul 07, 2010

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User survey; Sorting tables; PDFs from Print Booklet; Obscurity of the Week: Include Menu Commands

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Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize!
Sorting Tables, a story with three morals
PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> WinSoft International designs, develops, and localizes software for emerging markets, including InDesign ME (Middle Eastern). Their new plug-in ScribeDOOR for InDesign ($89) adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and many Indian scripts. It can be installed, as a plug-in, in all Roman versions of InDesign CS4 or CS5, and those files can be opened and viewed by any other CS4 or CS5 user without them needing the plug-in. There is a free trial of the plug-in available. >> Rorohiko's TextExporter 3.0 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS129 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the TextExporter plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets User Survey deadline is July 15 2010. Only 5 questions, and there's a $150 Lynda.com video raffle prize! > Peter Kahrel's Sort Table script and David's post about it > Steve Werner's posts about Print Booklet (168 comments since April 2007) and Snow Leopard & the Adobe PDF Printer (127 comments since August 2009) > Download the Acrobat 9.0 PPD (you might want to right-click and Save Link As)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 128 Jun 25, 2010

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InDesign to ePub; Quizzler results (triangles); Obscurity of the week: Single Word Justification

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InDesign to ePub
- What is it, why should you care?
- Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready
- Common glitches and tweaks
Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall!

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don't win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. >> Rorohiko's StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file's text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there's a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS128 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the StoryTweaker plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All posts tagged with "epub" in InDesignSecrets.com > Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis blog > The #ePrdctn Twitter hashtag is all about ePub production > Great eReader matrix (what device reads what format) > Adobe Digital Editions ePub reader utility > All InDesignSecrets recorded webinars > James Michener's Alaska > InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars -- How to create a triangle in InDesign 1. Pen Tool: Click four times 2. Pencil Tool: Draw carefully! 3. Line Tool: Draw three lines, then select the endpoints with Direct Selection tool and choose Object > Paths > Join 4. Draw a one-cell table. Put stroke on two sides and leave two sides set to None stroke. Then add diagonal line in Cell Options dialog box. 5. Click once with the Polygon tool and set it to three sides and zero inset 6. Convert any frame to triangle (Object > Convert Shape > Triangle) 7. Use a photo of a triangle, make clipping path with detect edges then convert path to frame 8. Use a triangle character from a font, such as "p" in Wingdings 3 (then use Type > Create Outlines) 9. Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to drag a corner point to the frame's middle point 10. Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to delete one of the corner points or scale it to 0% 11. Add an angled gradient fill that ends abruptly 12. Draw two rectangles. Rotate one so that it overlaps the first, select both then use Object > Pathfinder > Intersect 13. Paste one rectangle into another and rotate the first one inside the other 14. Arrange three rectangles so negative space creates a triangle shape 15. Draw a very short line, but make it very thick in Strokes panel. Give it an endpoint of a triangle (so that the triangular endpoint covers up the whole of the line) 16. Type capital "A" in a frame and convert the frame to outlines. Select and choose Object > Path > Release Compound Path. Delete the "outside" path and use the triangular counter. 17. Draw an ellipse. Choose the Pen tool and click on one point of the ellipse to delete it. Now hold down the Option/Alt key (to get temporary Convert Point tool) and click the 3 remaining points. 18. View a screen shot of a triangle created by rotating three pages using Mike Rankin's Transform Pages trick Have more? Add them to the comments below!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 127 Jun 09, 2010

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All about Leading; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Master Color

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All About Leading
- Leading-related Preference settings
- When to use Auto-Leading and when not to
- Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more!
Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

-- Quizzler instructions: Think you have the answer to this episode's Quizzler? Do not post it here in a comment! Instead, send your answer(s) in an e-mail to info@indesignsecrets.com, with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line. (Note: InDesignSecrets.com contributors, past and present, aren't eligible. Sorry, Fritz!) Deadline for receipt of entries is midnight PST on Friday, June 18, 2010. The top two winners will each receive a copy of Real World Illustrator CS4 — we will notify you by email if you win. In the case of a three- or more-way tie, we'll choose two winners randomly. Good luck! -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! We love FrameReporter ($29 US) because it lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS127 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All posts tagged with "leading" in InDesignSecrets.com > Blog post about Rogue Leading and When Leading is Ignored > Podcast #95 had Skip by Leading as its OIFOTW > White Labels > InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars

InDesignSecrets Podcast 126 May 30, 2010

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Best and Worst little CS5 features; Blog posts of the week; Obscurity of the Week: Folder 0-------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-126.php for show notes, links, and to leave a comment!--------Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-126.mp3 (19 MB, 36:14 minutes)See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

Favorite little features in InDesign CS5
- New control panel widgets, Patient user mode always on (AM), Minion Pro default, more
Least-favorite, little annoyances in InDesign CS5
- Change in panel tabs, New Window menu organization, Patient user mode always on (DB), more
Hot Blog Posts of the Week
- Configurator for InDesign, TweetChats, InDesign to iPad
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Folder 0
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

News and special offers from our sponsors:>> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta now supports InDesign CS5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions InDesign installed can go back to simply double-clicking INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS126 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the $19 Soxy utility. >> CtrlPublishing makes CtrlCrossTalk, a magical plug-in that lets InCopy users edit any story in an InDesign layout file, without the designer needing to export the stories to InCopy format first. They have another plugin, CtrlCrossTalkID that lets the InDesign user "lock" the frames that the InCopy user should not be able to edit. Listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5.>> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off.--Links mentioned in this podcast:> Lie back and think of England

InDesignSecrets Podcast 125 May 19, 2010

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PeP Conference recap; ePub cover art tip; Graphic FX ebook; Top 40 Tips ebook; Dropbox; Chicago and San Francisco seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Master Page Overlay-------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-125.php for show notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment!-------Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-125.mp3 (14.6 MB, 27:39 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

2010 Print & ePublishing Conference Recap
Tip for creating ePub cover art in InDesign
Two new eBooks debut this week:
- InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects, Mike Rankin's new eBook
- InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips, most useful/popular tips from the blog in one place
Using Dropbox with InDesign projects/workflows
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Master Page Overlay
- and Kris Coppieter's cool EnslaveMaster plugin
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco, Chicago, more!
Tuesday Tweets! Use hashtag #idsl on Tuesday 10 a.m. PST

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CtrlPublishing empowers InDesign's Layers panel with its CtrlLayers plug-in, such as creating new documents from visible layers. There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Print & ePublishing Conference and the flickr group pictures > Our ePub cover art tip is courtesy of Gabriel Powell > Visit our eBooks page for store links and sample chapters > Sign up for your free Dropbox account (Mac/Windows/Linux) > San Francisco and Chicago InDesignSecretsLive seminar info/registration > Kris Coppieter's EnslaveMaster plugin (now called TransformMaster)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 124 May 01, 2010

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CS5 ships; Michael Ninness interview; Conference and Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Set Tab Order------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-124.php for details, Show Notes, and to leave a comment!-----Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-124.mp3 (19.9 MB, 39:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more
Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe's past Product Manager for InDesign
2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our posts about CS5 shipping and our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Michael Ninness' post about InDesign CS5 > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > David's InDesign CS5 Essential Training > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios > What happens to a dream deferred?

InDesignSecrets Podcast 123 Apr 18, 2010

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InDesign CS5 Released; New contributor Keith Gilbert; Russell Viers interview; Obscurity of the Week: Straight Hash

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InDesign CS5!
Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert
Yes, a use for Style Groups!
Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers
InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- new cities added!
2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Studio just released eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. >> Rorohiko sells a fascinating plug-in called MagnetoGuides that makes it easy to quickly layout grid-based designs because page objects become "magnetized" to the guides. You've got to try it for yourself; it’s FREE for 20 days, and then when you can't live without it, you’ll want to buy it for the low price of $59. Or, reduce the cost by 10% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS123 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko’s shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Keith Gilbert's first InDesignSecrets blog post (and here's his company's web site) > All about Russell Viers > InDesignLive Seminar is coming to Vancouver, Austin, Atlanta, and (just announced!) Chicago and San Francisco! > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios

InDesignSecrets Podcast 122 Apr 01, 2010

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Conference Agenda; InDesign CS5 Launch; Quark Features Missing in InDesign; Hot Forum Post; Obscurity of the Week: Best Joins

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InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- news/updates
Sessions announced for the Print and ePublishing Conference
InDesign CS5 (and those other minor Suite programs) launch on April 12
QuarkXPress features that aren't in InDesign (and workarounds for some of them)
Hot Forum Post: Cool Keyboard Shortcuts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Best Joins

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> DTPTools offers a suite of 12 InDesign plug-ins in a single package called BlatnerTools (because our own David Blatner designed it)! It works with CS3 and CS4 on both Mac and Windows. You can see a video of a lot of the cool things BlatnerTools can do, and when you're convinced you just gotta have it, you can get 10% off the normal $149 price by using the discount code IDSBLATNERTOOLS in the DTPTools online store. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference > Print and ePublishing Conference Agenda is now up! The $200 early bird discount ends on April 9, so register as soon as you can. > CS5 is coming! CS5 is coming! > Page Tools lets you have more than one page size in one ID document > You may be interested in that CoolKerning "kerning table" plug-in we mentioned > Or do it the old-fashioned way by editing the kern pairs in the font itself > Fritz wrote up a workaround for character-level opacity changes > Synchronized text in InDesign solution 1 and solution 2 > David's uplifting post, Things that InDesign Can't Do > Adobe's Feature Request form that they actually read! > Hot Forum Post about Cool Keyboard Shortcut Changes

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